{"id":913752,"date":"2026-06-18T18:12:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T23:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/18\/is-forza-horizon-6-about-to-get-some-competition-former-director-plots-new-racing-game-reveal-next-week\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T18:12:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T23:12:31","slug":"is-forza-horizon-6-about-to-get-some-competition-former-director-plots-new-racing-game-reveal-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/18\/is-forza-horizon-6-about-to-get-some-competition-former-director-plots-new-racing-game-reveal-next-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Forza Horizon 6 About To Get Some Competition? Former Director Plots New Racing Game Reveal Next Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body\">\n<article id=\"article\">\n<header>\n<section>\n<p>A true maverick, if you will<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<ul>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.purexbox.com\/users\/302914\/avatar.jpg?v=1641467957\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Kezelpaso\">by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/authors\/Kezelpaso\">Ben Kerry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><time data-days=\"5\" datetime=\"2026-05-27T17:00:00+00:00\">Wed 27th May 2026<\/time><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/header>\n<section>\n<figure data-uuid=\"c85e9aca1abe7\"><a title=\"Is Forza Horizon 6 About To Get Real Competition? Former Director Set To Reveal New 'AAA' Racer\" href=\"https:\/\/images.purexbox.com\/c85e9aca1abe7\/is-forza-horizon-6-about-to-get-real-competition-former-director-set-to-reveal-new-aaa-racer.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.purexbox.com\/c85e9aca1abe7\/is-forza-horizon-6-about-to-get-real-competition-former-director-set-to-reveal-new-aaa-racer.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Is Forza Horizon 6 About To Get Real Competition? Former Director Set To Reveal New 'AAA' Racer\"><\/a><figcaption><em><span class><\/span> Image: Forza Horizon 5 \/ Playground Games, Microsoft<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Just over three years ago now, it was revealed that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/news\/2023\/01\/forza-horizon-5-devs-split-off-to-form-new-aaa-studio\"><strong>Forza Horizon 5<\/strong>&#8216;s creative director Mike Brown had split off with several other devs to form Maverick Games<\/a>; a new studio making a &#8220;AAA&#8221; racing game. And, despite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/news\/2026\/02\/amazon-abandons-maverick-games-as-former-forza-devs-seek-new-publisher\">Amazon Games very recently abandoning the project<\/a>, the team looks set to reveal the title next week.<\/p>\n<p>In a&#8230; <em>strange<\/em> collection of social media <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MaverickGames\/status\/2059274738317324315?s=20\">posts<\/a> \u2014 and <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/kAlw9rQLxFw\">this YouTube countdown<\/a> featuring a Fiat Multipla of all vehicles \u2014 Maverick Games appears to be actively teasing the reveal. We&#8217;ll share both the YouTube livestream and the tongue-in-cheek Twitter posts on this down below:<\/p>\n<p>That livestream countdown is ticking down to <strong>June 2nd<\/strong>, which is when we&#8217;re expecting the game&#8217;s trailer to appear, unless the team has something else weird up its sleeve. Rather fittingly, that&#8217;s the <em>same day<\/em> as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/news\/2026\/05\/sonys-summer-state-of-play-takes-place-within-a-week-of-the-xbox-games-showcase-2026\">Sony&#8217;s big summer State of Play<\/a>, so we can probably count this game out in terms of an appearance during the PlayStation show later that day.<\/p>\n<p>Given that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/news\/2026\/02\/amazon-abandons-maverick-games-as-former-forza-devs-seek-new-publisher\">Maverick&#8217;s split with Amazon was only announced in<\/a> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/news\/2026\/02\/amazon-abandons-maverick-games-as-former-forza-devs-seek-new-publisher\">February<\/a><\/em>, we wonder if this trailer is partly for the fans, and partly to try and attract a new publisher onto the project. Perhaps we&#8217;ll know more when we see how far along the game is; hopefully next week with a more exciting <em>trailer<\/em> than the image shared above. Good one, guys.<\/p>\n<p><em>Are you excited to see this? Will it be real competition for Forza Horizon 6? Talk to us about it down below.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.purexbox.com\/users\/302914\/avatar.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Ben Kerry\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Ben is a News Writer at Pure Xbox, and is a fan of action, racing and straight-up shootin&#8217; in any Xbox game he can get his hands on. When he&#8217;s not clutching an Xbox controller like his life depends on it, Ben spends his time listening to music that&#8217;s far too old for him, watching football on the telly and probably eating somewhere.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/authors\/Kezelpaso\"><span><\/span> Author Profile<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a onclick=\"return replyTo('Kezelpaso');\" href=\"http:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/#\"> Reply<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> Sharie Coby<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/news\/2026\/05\/is-forza-horizon-6-about-to-get-some-competition-former-director-plots-new-racing-game-reveal-next-week\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A true maverick, if you will by Ben Kerry Wed 27th May 2026 Image: Forza Horizon 5 \/ Playground Games, Microsoft Just over three years ago now, it was revealed that Forza Horizon 5&#8217;s creative director Mike Brown had split off with several other devs to form Maverick Games; a new studio making a &#8220;AAA&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":913753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26668,26669],"tags":[145314,18562],"class_list":["post-913752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-forza","category-horizon","tag-forza","tag-horizon"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/913753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}